Gianluca Hotz

Gianluca Hotz is an independent consultant, trainer, and speaker specialized in architecture, database design, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning, system integration, and migrations for Microsoft SQL Server.

He has been working as a consultant in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996, starting with version 4.21 on Windows NT. As a trainer, he was in charge of the SQL Server courses line for one of the largest Italian Microsoft Learning Partners (Mondadori Informatica Education) and continues to train professionals through regular classroom training and on-the-job coaching. He supports Microsoft as a speaker and expert at local and international conferences, workshops, and university seminars.

In 2003, he joined SolidQ as a mentor, served on the global board as a voting member (2012-2014), and was one of the founders of the Italian subsidiary where he held the position of ad interim CEO (2007-2014) and director of the Data Platform division (2015-2016). He left the company in 2019 to pursue his own business.

Among the original founders of ugiss.org (Italian User Group for SQL Server, official PASS Chapter) and ugidotnet.org, he served as vice-president of UGISS from 2001 to 2016 and is currently president. He is recognized as a VMware Expert for SQL Server and, for his contributions to the community, has been a Microsoft Data Platform MVP (formerly SQL Server MVP) continuously since 1998.

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